Which champions were the most powerful and broken in League history?

YumaS2Astral·6/29/2015, 3:20:20 AM·1 votes·324 views

It has been 2 years since I started to play League. That said, which were the most powerful, unbalanced, and broken champion in the history? I am speaking of champions that were so powerful that they were must bans, were clearly unbalanced and Riot had to fix them quickly for the sake of the game's balance.

The only 2 champions that I can recall to fit on those features are Kassadin and Warwick.

If I'm not mistaken, Kassadin, before the removal of his silence, was banned in more than 95% of the draft pick matches. He was extremely unbalanced due to his silence, insane mobility, ability to ignore the frontline, absurd base damage AND scalings, and the fact that with his passive, he could counter many mages, although even AD champions could have a problem against him. This allowed him to win games alone. His early game was said to be weak, although it wasn't really weak, thanks to his silence and his ability to start with Flask + 3 pots and outsustain most champions.

As for Warwick, he is the only champion that I can think that can come close to how broken Kassadin was. At least during the patch 4.20, which introduced new jungle items, and made the jungle harder to clear due to some reasons, one of them being that you can now only start with Machete and 2 potions, instead of 4 potions like you used to be. Many champions were struggling with clearing the camps, but Warwick didn't had such problems at all, thanks to his incredible sustain, good base stats, and decent clearing speed. And due to how his ultimate interacted with Skirmisher's Sabre, as well as the Devourer enchantment, which was essentially a fully-stacked Feral Flare, Warwick was a force to be reckoned with, and like Kassadin, he could win games alone if you didn't banned him.

7 Comments

ilt6/29/2015, 3:22:13 AM1 votes

MasterYi

Live2LetDie6/29/2015, 3:32:04 AM1 votes

Going way way back the two most op champs ever were Leblanc and XinZhao . Lb was hot fixed a couple hours after her release because she was so strong. Everyone complains about her now but at one point you literally couldn't deal with her. Xin was a god. Being on of the best mele dualist his ratios were so strong that he could penta level 1. Jax : when there was DODGE this champ was practically unkillable. Imagine his helicopter on 80%-%90 of the time. You literally couldn't hit this champ no matter how many times you clicked to auot him.

Dunkrius2g6/29/2015, 9:50:48 AM1 votes

Some might say Darius. If you die in lane once, then going back into lane is pointless. You either die again or u somehow ask the jungler to literally camp your lane forever. Unfortunately I was never here to experience it so... Yeah

Sky Shadow6/29/2015, 5:09:08 PM1 votes

I'd have to agree with Live2LetDie and say Leblanc for a champion being the most broken upon release.

She was the most powerful and strongest champion in League history for 2 hours. =P

Trídent6/29/2015, 5:10:35 PM1 votes

release Zyra ?